Alberto Gimeno is a versatile mobile engineer with 17 years of experience building developer tools, cloud services, and client-facing apps across backend, frontend and mobile platforms. He’s language-agnostic—comfortable in Ruby, Go, TypeScript, Swift/Objective-C, Python and more—and quickly adopts the best tool for the job, having picked up Ruby at GitHub and made it his primary language within months. Alberto has shipped high-scale features like UI virtualization for rendering tens of thousands of log lines, PostGIS-backed browser visualizations, and data model migrations affecting billions of records without downtime. He contributes to notable open-source projects (e.g., Probot) and has expanded internationalization in libraries such as chrono by adding Spanish parsers. Based in Zaragoza, Spain, he combines deep technical breadth with a practical focus on solving real user problems and mentoring teams to elevate their output.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Universidad de Zaragoza
Contributions summary:Alberto primarily worked on an iOS app template, focusing on implementing common iOS tasks and features. Their contributions involved creating authentication dialogs, integrating with map features (directions, autocomplete), and adding examples for table view functionality, including pull-to-refresh and swipeable cells. Furthermore, the user demonstrated experience with refactoring the project from ASIHTTPRequest to AFNetworking, improving memory management, and fixing compilation issues.
Bring your code to the conversations you care about with GitHub's integration for Slack
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:128 commits, 67 PRs, 91 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Alberto's contributions primarily revolve around the backend aspects of the project, focusing on the integration of GitHub with Slack. Their work includes modifying pull request notifications, incorporating reviewers, and integrating deployment features. They've made changes to core backend files related to pull requests and the creation of issues, as well as the addition of issue template functionality. This suggests a focus on improving the functionality of the GitHub integration within Slack.
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